The head of the Forest Industries Association (FIAT) says conservation groups should not have been left out of the Tasmanian Government's new industry advisory group.

The new ministerial advisory council includes the Forest Industries Association, the Farmers and Graziers Association and Forestry Tasmania.

Resources Minister Paul Harriss revealed in May that the Government would replace the Special Council formed by Labor and the Greens to oversee the implementation of the forest peace deal with its own ministerial council.

He said then that the advisory council would include representatives from the main timber industry bodies, but not green groups.

However, FIAT chief executive Terry Edwards said conservation groups should not have been left out.

"My point of view remains exactly as it has always been, that I think the environmental movement have a legitimate claim to have a voice inside a council such as this one," he said.

"They have a legitimate view they ought to be advocating on behalf of their constituents," he said.

The environmental movement have a legitimate claim to have a voice inside a council such as this one

Terry Edwards Forest Industries Association

Mr Harriss said the door remained open to groups with a stake in forestry industry activities.

"That opportunity has always been there for any legitimate organisation who wants to contribute to growing the industry, and that is still the position of the Government," he said.

Forestry industry growth plan to be formed

Mr Harriss said the council would develop a growth plan for the industry.

"(It will) obviously advise the government, but in the broadest possible way, with openness, transparency," he said.

"I would see the production of a strategic forestry industry growth plan as central to that."

Tasmania's Farmers and Graziers Association welcomed its own inclusion in the group.

The association's Peter Skillern said he believed the previous council did not give private landowners a voice.

"Obviously private foresters more generally, which we represent, weren't part of the previous TFA (Tasmanian Forests Agreement) process, (and) as a result of that, the private landowners have had significant impacts upon them," he said.

Also on the ministerial advisory council are the Tasmanian Sawmillers Association, Tasmanian Special Timbers Alliance, Private Forests Tasmania, and National Centre for Future Forest Industries.